!2 California condor chicks have hatched from unfertilized eggs!

[kpete]

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨



Scientists at SDZWA discovered two California condor chicks have hatched from unfertilized eggs. This sort of asexual reproduction, known as parthenogenesis, is a first for the species and provides new hope for their recovery. Read more: http://sdzwa.org/condorchicks


https://stories.sandiegozoo.org/2021/10/28/san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance-conservation-scientists-report-first-confirmed-hatchings-of-two-california-condor-chicks-from-unfertilized-eggs/

[Tikki]

1. YAY...more cute (aah) baby California Condors.

If you have ever had a California Condor fly near you it is an awe inspiring event.
For a bit one flew above our car driving down the California Coast heading south from Santa Barbara.


Tikki

[liberalla]

2. Wow

That's cool! go condors!

[panader0]

3. Parthenogenesis--it's rare in birds but happens to some of my supposedly sinsemilla plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis

[getagrip_already]

4. It's a part of a honey bees reproduction process...

Drones, or male bees, are haploid insects that only have the dna of the mother. The queen has a choice of laying a fertilized or an unfertilized egg. All drones come from unfertilized eggs.

There is one strain of bees, ivory coast bees I think, where a female can develop from an unfertilized egg.

Insects, reptiles, fish and birds all use it to a degree. Nature will find a way.

[Wingus Dingus]

17. Happens in Colorado checkered whiptail lizards too.

All females.

[SergeStorms]

5. The immaculate Condorception!

Let's start a religion. 🕍 🦅

[Javaman]

7. praise be the holy velociraptor! nt

[EarnestPutz]

8. You go ahead. call me old fashioned but I'll stick with my Pastafarian beliefs.

[SergeStorms]

14. Ramen.

What if we can get his holy noodlyness to ride on the back of the sacred Condor? 😳

The sacred Condor could be the holy conveyance of the almighty FSM. He has to get around somehow, and rolling meatballs gather a lot of gunk after awhile.

We'll have to raise this question at the next Flying Spaghetti Monster delegate convention.

[EarnestPutz]

20. Yes, you raise an interesting possibility. Like you said, we can pursue it at the convention. Will..

....you be in the afternoon seminar on "The Theological Implications of Parmesan and Romano Cheese Blends"? Hope to see you.

[SergeStorms]

24. No, I opted for....

Spaghetti: Throw it at the wall, or cool and suck?

I got shut out of the very popular "Theological Implications of Parmesan and Romano Cheese Blend" seminar. Seats for that always go so quickly.

Maybe at one of the pre-registration covfefe and biscotti hours?

[calimary]

6. Amazing! But I can't help worrying about messing around with chromosomes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis

[lagomorph777]

9. I smell a paternity suit.

I don't care what the mother claims.

[SergeStorms]

15. Yeah, that excuse was already used once.

How many immaculate conceptions do they think we'll fall for anyway?

[dobleremolque]

10. We're gonna have to start a religion around them! n/t

[Duppers]

23. 😁

[lindysalsagal]

11. And to think, none of us believed Mary....

Ok! I WAS WRONG!!!!!

[hunter]

19. But that would mean baby Jesus was a girl.

Explain that to the Evangelical Christians.

[lindysalsagal]

22. I love it!

[Orangepeel]

12. wow! will they be able to reproduce?

[Ohio Joe]

13. Well...

I for one welcome our new immaculately conceived Condor overlords.

[Wingus Dingus]

16. Cool!

[surrealAmerican]

18. It won't add to their genetic diversity.

Parthenogenesis results in chicks that are genetically identical to the parent - just like clones.

[LiberalFighter]

21. Make sure that doesn't happen with Republican humans.

[MustLoveBeagles]

25. K&R